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The last week of June 2018 brought the American tycoon closer to acquiring the Rossoneri club, which emerged from the Chinese era. A year later he became the owner of Fiorentina.
A week of the devil. Between June 24 and July 1, 2018, Rocco Commisso came very close to becoming the owner of AC Milan, replacing the troubled management of Li Yonghong. It took another ten days to understand that the Via Aldo Rossi club would pass into American hands, yes, but to those of Paul Singer and in the background Elliott: a beginning of July in which Commisso tried all possible lunges, assaulting Mr. Li with ultimatums and declaring. willing to relieve Milan of the difficult economic situation in which it had fallen, if only he had been given the opportunity to assume command and take command of operations. Nothing happened. But by now the owner of Mediacom had made the mouth of Serie A: the following summer he bought Fiorentina and now here he is, challenging the Devil for the fourth time since he has been in Italy. So far, the balance between Elliott’s Milan and Commisso’s Viola is on perfect equality: one win for each team, one draw, 4 goals against 4 in total.
Hot summer
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What a summer, that summer. The Rossoneri fans didn’t even talk about football anymore: words like “fulfillment of the oath”, “Adjudicative Chamber”, “conciliatory agreement” flew over Milanello. We clung to the Tas to appeal against the exclusion of the European cups that arrived in that torrid last week of June, Elliott was waiting for the transfer of 32 million Chinese who never arrived, but who entered – in one way or another – into the history of Milan. On the bench was Gattuso, who managed to keep together an environment shaken by the imminent change of ownership: many times we forget how important Rino was in those months, and he is aggrieved. Commisso, who was fond of him, stood at the window as long as he could, then realized that the operation would not take place.
In florence
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“Mister X,” as he was called when the name of the interested buyer in Milan had not yet been revealed, returned the following summer. Not with Milan, where Elliott had already started the job of securing the club, but with Fiorentina. At the end of the Della Valle era, he came with the intention of “changing football” by taking advantage of his managerial and entrepreneurial skills. However, despite his Italian origins, Rocco was surprised at how difficult it can be to start a real relaunch project in our country. Like Elliott, he faces all kinds of hurdles in building a new stadium, the first step any American businessman wants to take to equip the club with an asset that improves it. His Viola’s on-field results, then, weren’t electrifying, despite the investments: at the very least, Prandelli is trying to get the team to safe waters, having looked very closely at the relegation zone. Tomorrow Milan arrives at Franchi, obsessed with qualifying for the Champions League like in that terrible summer of 2018. Who knows what thoughts you will have in your head, Mr. Commisso.
20 March – 21:42
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